Henry Louis Gates Quotes
I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces of America 2.'
Quotes to Explore
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.
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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
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I always tell people I'm very large in Uzbekistan.
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The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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Agreements are always the product of time and place.
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Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?
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Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.
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I am a micromanager, and I love being involved in every detail of my life, but in the big picture, you realize how little control you have. 'Air I Breathe' is about those moments of surrender where you get to something that is bigger than you, and you don't have answers for it.
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I don't want to get stale. I'm always interested in new things.
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Your system is not the most elementary, but it is one of the most elementary, and it is a way that the inner self acquaints itself with certain basic facts. It therefore provides itself with a large variety of environments in various reincarnations, with problems of various natures, and with diverse circumstances.
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On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree
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I don't think I make genre films. I think studios try to sell films as genres because they know how to do that. There's nothing wrong with that. I don't know what I make. It's sort of a pot roast, all my films.
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I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces of America 2.'
